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Full programme and how to attend or sign up  REGISTRATION is required by Sunday May 15. Please email ilya.berkovich@oeaw. ac.at indicating whether you wish to attend in person or online. The event on-site will be held in accordance with the Corona rules, in effect. Those attending online will receive a Zoom link on the morning […]

The symposium “Napoleon III and the Economy”, organised by the Banque de France, the Fondation Napoléon and the Sorbonne, will take place on 12 and 13 May 2022, in the auditorium of the Cité de l’Économie (Citéco). The number of available seats is limited to 50. Admission: 20€/person. Registrations from 15 March to 28 April 2022: […]

Presentation of the exhibition On the occasion of the bicentenary of the deciphering of hieroglyphics, the BnF is presenting an exhibition that focuses on the figure and discoveries of Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832), the father of Egyptology. Barely 32 years old, the young scholar demonstrated his brilliant interpretation of the graphic system of the ancient Egyptians. […]

Here is the programme for spring-summer programme of talks (in French) from 5 April 5 to 21 June 2022: “Paris in the time of Napoleon”, by Irène Delage and Chantal Prévot; “Napoleon, the forgotten films”, by David Chanteranne; “Lucien Bonaparte, a Republican Prince”, by Cédric Lewandowski, Fondation Napoléon  Jury Prize winner in 2020; “The war […]

Throughout her life, Rosa Bonheur kept almost all of her sketches, thus constituting a kind of “database”. These private creations – drawings, oils, watercolours, pastels, caricatures, comic strips – were sometimes notes that she took at random from her travels, sometimes preparatory studies for a particular painting, or even illustrations of great myths. She always […]

Through the lens of his preparatory studies, the exhibition looks beyond his public successes to chart the moments of inspiration and the progress of ideas. Visitors will follow the artist’s process as he gave form to the neoclassical style and created major canvases that shaped the public’s perceptions of historical events in the years before, […]

A virtuosic and prolific artist in a class of his own, Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) was the enthusiastic chronicler of Parisian life for sixty years, spanning a period from one revolution to the dawn of the next (1789 and 1848). In addition to being a portraitist for the Parisians and a painter of city scenes, Boilly […]

On Napoleon.org, find out more about the painting “Allegory of the exile and death of Napoleon I on St Helena” or “Napoleon’s tomb” Presentation of the exhibition by the Wallace Collection Hertford, who lived in Paris near Vernet’s studio, acquired 46 paintings and eight watercolours by the artist with whom he seems to have been on […]

This exhibition showcases a total of 150 works from the time of Napoleon I (from 1795 to 1815). These tiny portraits, which were generally intended for personal use, date from the “golden age” of miniature painting. They exhibit a high degree of artistic skill and refined craftsmanship. Unlike the staged, theatrical portraits of absolutism, now […]